I know for myself and a large number of my fellow Australian pilots who have been made redundant or likely to be in the near future, regardless of if we want to believe it, the pointy end of a jet just probably won’t happen for a very long time in Australia and most parts of the world for us and some, maybe never.
There are far too many highly qualified guys willing to do anything to get back in as previously pointed out and the demand just is not going to be there for everyone to do so.
Yes its terrible. But gotta face facts. A few hundred or even a few thousand hours in a 320 or 737 right seat isn’t going to mean anything at all when you consider how many guys will be on the market with a lot more from all over the world, not just down unda.